Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-04-22
Pointers from Kansas.

"bin to Kansas" and were going
back to their old stamping ground
in Schuyler county, Ill. One of
the men told us that he had been
in Kansas nearly five years and
that he never wanted to see the
State again. He says that country
is wonderfully "blowed up and
misrepresented, and people found
it out very quick after they ar
rived there. This is the same old
story, and it ought to teach people
that when they have q good home
and are making q living, they
ought to be satisfied. Missouri
possesses health, wealth, peace,
prosperity, happiness, long life
and contentment, and, if the
farmers will just look at the mat
ter right, they will stay in Grand
Old MISUNDERSTANDING Herald.
Some of our business citizens
contemplating moving to Kansas
City and points in Kansas, while
quite a number of persons from
all over the county will shortly
seek homes in western Kansas.
The probabilities are'that failure
in crops will occur over that vast
treeless plain the present season,
and hundreds of farmers will re-
turn to grand old Missouri, pro-
foundly impressed that Missouri
is one of the grandest states in the
Union. There is not foot of
homestead or pre-emption land in
Kansas to-day that will compare
with the fertility Of the soil of
Knox county. We thought differ
ent at one time, but experience,
that grand old teacher, taught us
quite the opposite. The day of
acquiring good, cheap homes in
Kansas can be numbered with the
things that were.-Knox Ind.
With all the scramble to get in
to some new country out west that
is now going on, it cannot be dis
puted that Missouri is the best
land of them all, and the climate
here is of that peculiar bracing
kind, chuck full of ozone and
thirgs, that makes an energetic,
hardy people. When the grass
hoppe1s, hot winds, drouths, etc.,
get in their deadly work, a large
number of those who have lately
been turning their backs on us
will be coming back here to get
a fresh start.-Ex.
Samuel T. Ladd, Of Quincy,
stopped in this city a few hours.
Tuesday, ON his return home from
Wichita, Kansas. He says of all
the frauds ever concocted, the
Wichita boom takes the lead; that
the city is located in country
where they have neither farming
land nor water; that it is kept up
by transient trade-men who get
excited, go there and scatter their
money foolishly; that there are
seven hundred real estate agents,
who have, from necessity, learned
to lie numerically, and that the
man who invests in Wichita real
estate may as we'll spend so much
money searching for brains in
the Kansas Legislature. Monroe
City News.
Albert Minear has just returned
from a trip to Southern Kansas
and as far west as Clark county loo
miles west Of Wellington.
He reports that east Of Cooley
county the wheat sowed last fall
has not come up as they have had
no rain for nine months.
i Itwas SO dry farmers could moi
plow.
He was in one sand storm anc
some houses, barns, and stock
burned up by fire running over the
country. The whole country was
lit up at night by fires and the
. air filled with smoke by day. He
says he did not talk with maj
that was satisfied or expected tc
make it his home.
Nearly all the land is under
mortgage and the mortgage helC
by eastern men.
He saw many men who were
staying just long enough to prove
up their claims and then expected
to leave.
Mr.. Green, of Downing, also
came back from Kansas and in
formed Mr.. Minear that cattle are
dying on the north of the Arkan.
sas river for the want of water.
He says the country is too dry
for any tame grasses. That nearl y
all the emigrants take tame grass
seed with them and SOW it and ii
always proves a failure.
One man had a fair crop oi
Alfalfa clover.
Mr.. Null, who lived six miles
southwest of Lancaster, has q
claim in Wichita county and will
stay just long enough to sell his
claim and then come back tc
Schuyler where he has bough
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